I’ve been staying pretty busy lately.  We’ve gotten into a routine of getting home from work and either going to the gym or walking in the neighborhood.  It’s been nice to be active and have my husband just as excited about it as me.  It makes me feel not so alone, and gives us something to do together.

This past weekend we went back and tackled a trail that we had walked a couple weeks before.  Ever since we had first walked it, we talked about going back and just walking until we couldn’t any more on the trail.  We weren’t sure how far they had gone with it.  I know eventually the trail is supposed to connect all the way to Riverside.  We called my Grandma and asked if she’d be on standby to come pick us up if we needed it.  It was a trail that didn’t circle around, it just kept going.  SO anyway, we went out, and it was perfect weather and we walked and ended up getting to the end of the trail, which was right under I-29.  Once we got to the end Tommie says “Let’s walk back to the car.”  I said “All the way back?  Are you sure?”  He said he was sure, so off we headed back.  In the end, we walked 4.77 miles.  That was twice what we are used to walking.  We were pretty proud of ourselves.  We even went shopping afterwards, but didn’t last long there, after shopping we were ready to go home and crash!

Since the walk though, my back has been bothering me.  I’ve tried to just work through it and keep up with my workouts.  It’s a pain in my groin that spreads to my lower back whenever I raise my right leg.  I don’t know if I just have a pulled muscle or what.  I’m going to take a break for the next few days though and hopefully, if the weather holds out, I’d like to go try a new trail on Sunday.  We were planning on going to Parma Woods and walk the trail there.

Saturday I have photos to take in the evening.  I’m a bit nervous, and as always, feel unprepared for it.  I have never met the people I’m taking pictures for, and just hope it all goes smoothly and everyone has fun.  I had asked someone to help mentor me with my photography, but it hasn’t really worked out as of yet.  I’m always wanting to learn more about my hobby that I love!  Get better control of it.

Last week was a good weight loss week.  This week has been another stall, but that seems to be my pattern, so I should get used to it.  Have a week of losing, have another week or two of staying the same or up and down within one pound.  Guess my body is trying to catch up and deal?  One positive thing – the “smell” issue I was having…..that people said could possibly be ketosis.  It seems to of gone away.  I’m so glad, because that REALLY bothered me!  I bought some clinical strength deodorant, and I don’t know if it was that or just my body, but it seems to of normalized now.  My surgeon ordered a urine test for me, but NEVER called me on the results.  Luckily a couple days afterwards I had an appt with my family doctor and he told me the results, because it was already in the system.  He said there were ketone’s in my urine.

Well – soon I will need to start getting together info to plan our yearly vacation.  My step daughter was thinking of joining us this year on our trip.  I think we’ll plan on going to Canada.  We had planned to go there in the past, but it didn’t work out.  This will be my first time there.  (and Tommie and Adrienne’s first time also)  Looking forward to it.  I was thinking Vancouver, but have a few other places I want to research also before making final plans.  My brother and sister in law and nephew will be coming to visit in July.  I’ve taken off work to spend time with them and am looking forward to spending time with them!  I haven’t seen them since Lucas was 6 months old.  He is 2 now.

Well – that’s it for my update.  Hope everyone is doing well.